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AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse Sep 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:03 David Sacks So Nathan Calvin, who's the general counsel at ENCODE AI, they're the group that basically pushed for SB-fifty-three in California.

GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal Sep 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:54 David Sacks And this was when SPF was trying to create that pandemic prevention center in California.

Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine Aug 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:59 Jason Calacanis That would be cataclysmic to have to bail out something like California. 2 times in the scene

Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:26 Michael Kratsios I mean, they were, they were, you know, you can imagine, um, and you probably know well being in California, I mean, there were all these initiatives out in San Francisco where they stopped wanting to teach, you know, advanced algebra to…

Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley Aug 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback Aug 13, 2026 · 1 mention

China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan Aug 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:30 Jason Calacanis As opposed to, hey, uh, you know, F off, like they told, uh, Elon in California, and he got the message received reply, uh, to that lunatic.

Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores Jul 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out? Jul 21, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:03 Jason Calacanis And you know, the thing that it's been really eyeopening for me, having lived in New York, California, and now Texas, 3 times in the scene

Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters Jul 18, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 5:13 David Friedberg As we saw in California, when California tried to pass AI legislation, I think it was about a year, year and a half ago, none of what they wrote even made sense at the time, but fast forward a year, none of those kind of rules and…
  • ▶ 17:19 David Sacks So the basic idea is that they get a set of regulations passed in one state, like California's SB 53, and that was then supposed to be the model, at least for all the blue states. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:03 Jason Calacanis Maybe you could open the, um, aperture here if you want, or you can just go very detailed, but the nature of we have a free market, we don't have non-competes in California, generally speaking, you can just employment at will, go where you…
  • ▶ 56:45 Chamath Palihapitiya By 20 50, the United States of America will be two and a half California's worth of energy in deficit. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:10:03 Jason Calacanis But the problem is we need to have enough surplus here, because this is where most of the commerce is going to get created that really that I think these are luxury regulations like you can afford if you're New York State or California to…

The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour Jul 14, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 40:34 Jason Calacanis Attorneys, obviously, very famously localized, right, and is this going to create attorneys who can operate across borders in a way that didn't exist, and you're starting to see that, and is that something that's built into the product, so… 3 times in the scene

OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts Jul 11, 2026 · 1 mention

AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie Jul 3, 2026 · 38 mentions

Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?! Jun 29, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 10:01 Jason Calacanis Take us through what happened in your estimation in California with Spencer Pratt, fraud, just mail-in ballots. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:32 Nate Silver They are the ones who are very concerned with California as a case study of poor governance. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:44 Nate Silver That's a hell of a lot of money spent, but like our crime is like relatively low compared to, to California. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:37 Nate Silver And maybe a little bit about the New York and California elections.
  • ▶ 56:58 Nate Silver I would argue in California governance wise as well. 2 times in the scene

Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter Jun 27, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:02 Gavin Baker I think there are tens of billions, maybe hundreds of billions of these payments flowing to these NGOs, and if you look in California and New York, it's, um, like, I think the per capita spending on homelessness has more than doubled, and… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:50 Gavin Baker Their approach to education, of getting rid of these elite schools that allows low-income people to have a real chance, you know, getting rid of math in California, it is profoundly disadvantageous to people.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s $56B Plan to Take Over eBay Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections Jun 13, 2026 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:47 Jason Calacanis Is the election system in Los Angeles, specifically in California, corrupt?
  • ▶ 1:15:30 David Friedberg And they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges they saw arise in that midterm elections because of some of the legislative changes that were made. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20:12 David Sacks So first of all, California sends out ballots to every registered voters. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:24:59 Chamath Palihapitiya It is designed, this is why, look, guys, we live in a autocracy in California where one political machine has shaped the laws so inexorably that whether it's a mayor or it's a state legislator or it's a state senator or it's the governor,… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:31:31 Jason Calacanis Yeah, and there's, by the way, there's a ballot measure in California. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:34:10 Jason Calacanis The statistics are the statistics and they would scream that you should have the attorney general of California and the federal attorney general look into it.
  • ▶ 1:37:56 David Sacks That California elections are completely corruption free after all the things they've clearly done.

Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:15 Chamath Palihapitiya If you guys can't find resolution, what are the odds of California and West Virginia making it up, find resolution?

Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper Jun 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:57 Dan Dreyfus Then we've got, you know, here in California, Paradise, California, that power line that caught on fire and killed 300 people. 2 times in the scene

Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:48 Thomas Laffont Well, the first thing that comes to mind is, I remember when David was so bearish, California real estate, um, we'll see whether this influx of capital.

Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING Jun 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:01 Bill Ackman So, I bet a lot of people here have heard of Summerlin, because, ah, a lot of the tech community has moved from California to Las Vegas, but we own this small city, 26,000 acres of land, ah, we own all the commercial land, we own all the…

Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño May 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:10 David Friedberg There will be major atmospheric river events where you just get water dumped on you in the Southwest and California and the Gulf Coast. 2 times in the scene

Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back May 10, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 13:52 Spencer Pratt I want to sue the state. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:33 Spencer Pratt And then in the state of California, this is the craziest part, with the home key rules, the state won't give the city a lot of the money if you require the people to be off of drugs.
  • ▶ 41:34 unnamed speaker But LAUSD, as a school district, ranks 170th in the state of California.
  • ▶ 49:31 Spencer Pratt Most of the firefighters can't even live in California anymore.
  • ▶ 1:05:52 Spencer Pratt I'm going to work with the insurance companies so we can bring insurance back to California first LA because we're going to show them the model because if they have these dip sites for these helicopters, we bring in more of these Chinooks…

Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:11 Brad Gerstner Can you imagine if California effectively passes a constitutional amendment protecting retirement savings and personal assets and banning the wealth tax and
  • ▶ 12:17 Brad Gerstner New York and California, because they haven't built any supply on the grid.

OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze May 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:47 Jason Calacanis Sax is like, I'm never setting foot in California, but I will.
  • ▶ 1:11:51 David Friedberg Where the state has a law, like in California, called a failure to warn law, which means if a manufacturer knows that a product carries a risk, you have to warn the consumer.

CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win Apr 29, 2026 · 7 mentions

How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California Mar 23, 2026 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker I mean, you're a guy who kind of popped up running for governor of California last minute.
  • ▶ 0:13 Matt Mahan Well, David, like everybody, I'm frustrated with a state that keeps spending more and seemingly getting less, which is why I jumped in. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:16 unnamed speaker Because in California, the legislature passes hundreds and hundreds of bills a year. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:15 Matt Mahan And people, working people in California especially, don't have a lot of savings. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:37 unnamed speaker Should all healthcare in California be free? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:49 Matt Mahan I'm a, I'm a Democrat, but I also recognize that something's broken in California.
  • ▶ 1:05:27 unnamed speaker Rate Governor Newsom and the job he's done as governor of California. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:13 unnamed speaker And as it relates to ICE and immigration enforcement, do you consider undocumented immigrants in the state of California individuals that you would represent as governor?

John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This' Mar 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:10 unnamed speaker I don't know if you've seen these videos out of Minnesota and this guy, Nick Shirley, doing them out of California.

Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas Mar 17, 2026 · 6 mentions

Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare Mar 13, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:13 Jason Calacanis It's so weird that like New York is now taking the crown of most retarded state from California.
  • ▶ 1:08:16 David Sacks Before I left the state of California. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:34 David Sacks Version of a national wealth tax, where it wasn't just five percent once, like in California, it was five percent per year. 4 times in the scene

Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV Feb 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:51 David Friedberg California has nearly a trillion dollars of unfunded pension obligations to its public retirees or public employees that are going to retire.

Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:55 David Sacks Like I said, it's a lot easier to fix my internet than to fix the state of California.

ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping Jan 31, 2026 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 25:05 David Sacks California would have lost House seats, I think it was like four,
  • ▶ 1:17:26 David Friedberg And while I was there, I was actually thinking about the wealth tax stuff that's going on in California. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20:06 David Friedberg Did you guys see that Matt Mahan entered the California gubernatorial race? 14 times in the scene

The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026 Jan 25, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 45:15 Jason Calacanis California is seizing the billionaire's assets, literally asking them to write down and audit everything they own, put a value on the painting or the piece of jewelry they bought for their spouse.
  • ▶ 51:21 Jeremy Allaire And so that, that's why I, I, you know, my, my answer is like, yeah, there's things California, New York, et cetera, are doing, but I think when we, when we look at that in comparison to the, the broader political economy that we're gonna…
  • ▶ 1:22:56 Adam Goldstein And so if you want to land a helicopter in California, there's a lot of rules.

Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos Jan 24, 2026 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 37:32 Dr. Mehmet Oz We also have an active role of unions, especially in California.
  • ▶ 39:45 Dr. Mehmet Oz We have seven times more hospice in California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:13 David Sacks Well, you're talking about California. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:36 David Sacks And like you said, how do you argue for, California already has some of the highest tax rates in the nation, and now you're arguing for more taxes.
  • ▶ 53:35 David Sacks Think about the layers of fraud there that you've got, you know, the, the government, the government of California is paying for illegal aliens. 8 times in the scene

Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos! Jan 23, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 24:01 Jason Calacanis Um, is the rise of socialism in, um, New York specifically, California. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:44 Jason Calacanis And then you have Boston and a couple, and California now, they're saying, hey, listen, we're only going to allow a certain number of robotoxies, or Boston's like, we're not going to let you have them here.
  • ▶ 56:24 Jason Calacanis If you do lose your power, which in California, I think they turn it off about on the peninsula

Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:14 Sarah B. Rogers And I think, so I, my history is as an American lawyer in American courts, and we have, you know, we're a nation of 50 states, and each state has its own regulations, and we've had to think about, you know, when there's a website in… 2 times in the scene

Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs Jan 17, 2026 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 35:01 David Friedberg Do a little jiggy as they dance back from Texas, back to California. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:57 David Sacks It's not that many in California. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:14 David Sacks California is screwed, but we got to start stacking sandbags around the rest of the states. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:43 David Sacks So California collects roughly double per capita what Texas and Florida do. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:04 David Sacks First in California and then in Washington.
  • ▶ 1:08:47 David Friedberg If you think about the state of California spending three hundred and fifty billion dollars a year, and you ask yourself the question, are those government agencies and the agents in those agencies doing their job of making sure that…

Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients Jan 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:29 unnamed speaker What's frustrating to me to observe is there are now states like California and the California DPH that are saying, we're going to set our own vaccine schedule.
  • ▶ 1:19:23 Dr. Marty Makary Um, but one in 12 boys in California now being diagnosed with autism.

Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism Jan 13, 2026 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker And while we're talking, we can also talk broadly about LA, about California, about the US and where things are headed.
  • ▶ 2:38 Adam Carolla Um, and I, I think it leads into a, a bigger conversation about Los Angeles and California and how come there's no affordable housing and how come when they build homeless units that are 400 square feet, they're 900,000 dollars a unit. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:08 unnamed speaker It's obviously a California problem and across the United States. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:15 unnamed speaker California and New York and Seattle and Oregon. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:19 unnamed speaker California is projected to have an eighteen billion dollar budget deficit in the 26 to 27 cycle. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:23 unnamed speaker So who do you think is the right candidate for California?
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